Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

Under each formula lies a corpse.

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life - we're striving for this perfection, and it's so unhealthy because there's no such thing as perfection.

In the jungle, you learn about the other beauties in life. In everyday life, it's all about looking perfect, but in there, there's none of that.

I can survive in the jungle, so now I can do anything.

I'm a believer in feeling good in your skin, so I put bikini pics on my Instagram.

My ex-boyfriend didn't hear me fart once, and we were together six years. I hated the thought of grossing him out, so I think some things should be left to do privately.

I'm not saying I won't get dolled up again, but I'm not going to worry about it all so much.

It is hard as an actor when you are typecast at a really young age and come out of that pigeonhole thing.

That was the biggest fear for me - being seen without my straight hair, my makeup or fake tan, being seen without my armour on. That terrified me.

My whole life, I've been judged for how I look, which is part and parcel of being in the public eye, playing sexy roles and posing for lad's mags, but I want people to like me for my personality and brain.

I love Instagram and photography.

I'm not a tart. I feel like I've been treated like one in the past.

I take each thing as it comes and appreciate everything that's in front of me now because people in this industry are so fixated on the next thing that they don't enjoy the moment. It passes you by, and all of a sudden, it's over.

Fame can be a double-edged sword, and you have to take the bad with the good. The highs are incredibly high, and the lows can be incredibly low.

I avoid social media and articles with negative comments about myself, because the first few times that I got called 'fat' broke my heart; it absolutely destroyed me. It's awful when someone says something like that to you.

I bet I would make a really good daughter-in-law.

I have been through a lot in my life, my parents divorced when I was 16, and it was a very difficult time.